I sometimes hear stuff about there being a disconnect, and that couldn’t be further from the truth, for me, the board and Dermot, we all love Celtic and want the club to be the very best it can be
For now, domestic dominance continues to mask these flaws. But as the new Champions League format ratchets up both the financial rewards and the competitive bar, Celtic’s model will face its most severe test. In Kazakhstan it was exposed and failed miserably.
Rodgers tentatively discussed ambitions and aspirations, Michael Nicholson opted to consolidate the Bank Balance further while the goals of Kuhn and Kyogo were removed from the managers options.
The summer transfer window was the opportunity to show that lessons have been learned, instead it has confirmed that the virus of complacency has set in deep across the club.
Referencing that a lot of hard work is going on behind the scenes is a favoured phrase from Rodgers, used when it appears that the club has ran out of ideas on how to improve the first team squad with a £3m ceiling imposed on transfer fees.
When you’ve just scored four goals, that always seems to be OK, but we lost an important player in January in Kyogo, who scored a lot of goals, and we’ve lost Nicolas Kuhn, a lot of goals again, and even Matt O’Riley last summer.
Nicholson and the recruitment team have had plenty of notice that Kuhn was leaving, just as they had in January when Kyogo left for Rennes without any genuine attempt at signing a replacement.